Art. 82 Guidelines: The European Commission sets up a new framework for analysis of exlusionary conduct through guidances on its enforcement priorities in applying Article 82 EC Treaty to abusive exclusionary conduct by dominant undertakings

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. – EC Commission, 3 December 2008, Guidance on priorities in the application of Article 82 to abusive exclusionary conduct The Guidelines on the application of Article 82 EC were becoming the "vintage" of Community competition law. As a result, it was questioned whether they would ever be published (L. Lovdahl Gormsen, "Will there Be Article 82 Guidelines and What Are the Implications?", Global Competition Policy, April 2008, 2nd issue). Indeed, more than five years passed between the first announcement of the Commission's reflections on a revision of its doctrine on the application of Article 82 EC, at a colloquium of the European Institute in Florence in